Budget solutions

Did he really have a choice? Cut, cut and cut. We do not have a tax problem, we have a spending problem. Eliminate all the waste from the state budget; you'd have the money needed to fund protection and education.

Start with the bloated pensions, then eliminate all the unnecessary state boards, committees and agencies. Then, reduce the welfare payments by 50 percent, then on to privatizing the prison system, and finally, stop spending so much on illegal immigrants. The solutions are out there, we just need to start implementing them.